Rescuers worked frantically through the night in this central Italian city, scooping through piles of crumbled plaster and other rubble with their hands under powerful lights early Tuesday to search for survivors after the country's deadliest quake in nearly three decades.

Local politicians, bankers and businessmen were among 57 people wanted Wednesday in connection with a mafia sweep across Italy targeting drug trafficking and extortion rackets, police and news reports said.

Robert Forster won the flat, 108-mile fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia in a sprint finish Thursday, and Danilo Di Luca retained the overall lead. Forster won in 4 hours, 17 minutes, 2 seconds for Gerolsteiner, edging Thorn Hushovd for his second Giro career victory. He won the last stage of the 2006 race.